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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using the environmental quality cost management model, this study examines how fraud risk management (FRM) influences corporate sustainability performance (CSP) and how ownership structures moderate it. The study uses artificial neural networks (ANN) and logistic regression models to test two hypotheses. H1 demonstrates that the prevention and
Israel Akinbode Owolabi +3 more
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Slaves out of context: domestic slavery and the Anglo-Indian family, c. 1780–1830 [PDF]
, 2009 This paper explores the place of domestic slaves in British families resident in India, c. 1780–1830, and the ways in which the presence of slaves within these Anglo-Indian households challenged British understandings of slavery as a practice.
Finn, Margot C.
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Policy Capacity Under Decentralization: Kindergarten Education Reforms in the Philippines
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines the relationship between policy capacity and policy effectiveness in decentralized governance setups. It challenges the conventional view that policy functions should only be decentralized when requisite capacities already exist at lower levels of government. Instead, the paper proposes that capacity can follow function ‐ as
Kidjie Ian Saguin, M. Ramesh
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The importance of business families is increasingly gaining attention. However, to truly understand business families and their dynamics, they must be viewed as distinct systems. Since this area has received limited scholarly focus, we argue that forming a new system is more than just an extension.
Heiko Kleve +2 more
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Property Law: The Estates of Missing Persons [PDF]
, 1966 This comment compiles and critically analyzes the various statutory provisions enacted for the preservation and distribution of the property of missing and unaccounted-for persons.
Johansson, Pernilla
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NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCESThis study critically assessed the law of intestate succession in Masaka district of Uganda, with the aim of inspiring Ugandan authorities to create a special legal structure to govern the law of intestate succession.
Nassanga Yvonne
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Lewis M. Simes as Teacher [PDF]
, 1975 A Tribute to Lewis M ...
Sparks, Bertel M.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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